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In my Python programming, I have found that ChatGPT makes me something like 10x more productive. From learning to use a new API to tracking debugging, and especially things finding errors in my code from stack traces. Getting results goes SO MUCH FASTER.

However, it has not alleviated any responsibility from me to be a good coder because I have question literally everything little dang thing suggests. If I am learning a new API, it can write code that works, but I need to go read the reference documentation to make sure that it is using the API with current best practices, for example. A lot of code I have to flat out ask it why it did things in a certain way because they look buggy inefficient, and half the time it apologizes and fixes the code.

So, I use the code in my (personal) projects copiously, but I don't use a single line of code that it generates that I don't understand, or it always leads to problems because it did something completely wrong.

Note that, at work, for good reasons, we don't use AI generated code in our products, but I don't write production code in my day job anyway.

Son of a gun! I've been working at SUSE for a bit of a year, and a lot of the positive things people say here still ring true, at least to me.

$4.99 impulse buy. I bought a pdf to put on my remarkable 2 for my next plane trip. I hope that doing it this way doesn't violate the spirit of using paper :)

In my experience, issues like this occur when people project ethical standards onto projects when those ethical standards are not embedded in the license.

In my view, if you believe it is unethical for someone to re-license your Apache code with their own proprietary license, then it shouldn't have an Apache license.

Taking a proprietary fork of an Apache licensed code base and creating an Enterprise product around it seems like a valid business move to me. My guess is that the "uproar" is not coming from the original project creators, but from outside community members who consider such things "anti-social" or whatnot, but I could be wrong.

I would argue that there are good business to be built on top of AWS and Azure catering to the users of those services, and very little chance that Amazon or Microsoft would pull the rug out from under you based on their track records.

I pay for ad-free YouTube. I also pay for a ton of extra storage in Google drive.

I find the constantly closing down and shifting of services to be a slight annoyance but not really too impactful in my personal usage. For example, moving Google podcasts and YouTube music into YouTube has been a pretty sad degradation. But not really a deal breaker for me.

What I would never ever do is build a business on top of Google. They seem so cavalier about pulling the rug out from under you. I can only imagine if you have for example services running in Google cloud, how they would treat you if you were counting on a service that they thought wasn't worth it to maintain anymore. Shutting down apis that people were using like this just seems very on-brand for them to me.

I wish we were in the Star Trek universe, so this was "AI will free humanity to pursue science and art without economic concerns" instead of "AI will make everyone poor and subjugate."

Or developers compile a static linux binary for the specific architectures (usual amd64) and just compile all of the dependencies into the app. You download the binary and run it. That used to be how Steam worked, for example, and I assume still does.

I think that what snaps and flatpaks want to do that is "better" than this, is to isolate your system from such applications if they are malicious.

For "reasons" (i.e. I got a job at SUSE), I have been running openSUSE for the last 6 weeks. I like that I don't have to deal with snaps and flatpaks at all. I was able to install Slack, VSCode, Chrome, etc... from professionally maintained repositories. Open source apps like GNote just install cleanly from repos.

That said, it's nice that people who prefer snaps or flatpak (assuming such people exist) have that option without those packaging formats being shoved at me constantly.

I used to ask it a lot more nuanced questions. Like if I was watching TV and they referred to some historical event, I might have asked it about that historical event and gotten a useful response. Now it says something like, "I don't know how to answer that."